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U.S. Birth Rate Hits Record Low. Decline Greatest Among Immigrants. Recession a Likely Factor.
National Journal ^ | 11/30/2012 | Stephanie Czekalinski

Posted on 11/30/2012 8:49:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The U.S. birth rate dropped to its lowest level in more than 90 years, led by a drop among immigrants, according to a report data released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.

In 2011, the overall birth rate was 63.2 per 1,000 women of childbearing age, the lowest since at least 1920, Pew reported, citing numbers from the National Center for Health Statistics. The birth rate reached 122.7 in 1957, the peak of the Baby Boom. After the mid-1970s, the birth rate stabilized at about 65 to 70 births per 1,000 women annually, until the beginning of the Great Recession.

Since 2007, both the U.S. birth rate (the number of live births per 1,000 women ages 15-44) and the number of births have dropped significantly, according to the report.

Overall, the birth rate declined 8 percent from 2007 to 2010. Among U.S.-born women, the birth rate dropped 6 percent. The decline among foreign-born women was 14 percent. Among Mexican women, the birth rate fell even more, to 23 percent.

Despite the recent decline, foreign-born moms continue to give birth to a disproportionate share of the country’s babies, the report said. In 2010, immigrants represented about 13 percent of the U.S. population while foreign-born mothers accounted for 23 percent of all births.

After 2007, the number of U.S. births, which had been rising since 2002, fell abruptly, according to the report. This decrease was also led by immigrant women. Overall the number of births between 2007 and 2010 dropped 7 percent, pulled down by a 13-percent drop in births to immigrants. By comparison, births to U.S.-born women dropped only 5 percent.

The Pew researchers attributed that drop to a change in behavior (the falling birth rates) rather than a change in the number of women (those born in the U.S. or immigrants) of childbearing age.

An earlier Pew report attributed the recent fertility decline to “economic distress.” The study showed that states with the largest economic declines between 2007 and 2008 were most likely to experience relatively large fertility declines the following year. Hispanic women - both those born in and those born outside the U.S. - experienced larger birth-rate declines from 2007 to 2010 than other groups. They also experienced greater percentage declines in household wealth than white, black, or Asian households between 2005 and 2009, according to the report. Latinos also experienced a greater rise in poverty and unemployment than non-Latinos after the Great Recession began.

The recent decline in births to foreign-born moms reversed a trend in which immigrant women accounted for a rising share of the country’s births, according to the report. In 2007, immigrant mothers accounted for a quarter of all U.S. births, compared to 16 percent in 1990. By 2010, foreign-born moms accounted for 23 percent of all births.

Despite the drop-off among the foreign-born, Pew population projections indicate that immigrants who arrived since 2005 and their descendants will account for 82 percent of U.S. population growth by 2050. Even taking the recent decline in immigration into account, new immigrants and their descendants are still expected to lead most of the nation’s population increase by mid-century, according to the report.

Other findings:

* The majority of births (66 percent) to U.S.-born women were to white mothers. That share has dropped since 1990 when it was 72 percent. The majority of births to foreign-born mothers were to Hispanic moms.

* Teen mothers make up a greater share of births among U.S.-born women (11 percent in 2010) than foreign-born mothers (5 percent).

* Mothers ages 35 and older make up a higher share of births to immigrants (21 percent in 2010) than to moms born in the U.S. (13 percent). Mothers born outside the country accounted for more than a third of births to women ages 35 and older that year.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; birthrate; demographics; immigration; population

1 posted on 11/30/2012 8:49:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Looks like Obama might not be able to achieve his twin goals of destroying the US economy and culture.
2 posted on 11/30/2012 8:52:44 AM PST by skeeter
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To: SeekAndFind

Good. Now let us get honest Americans back to work and then they’ll start making wholesome families again.


3 posted on 11/30/2012 9:02:27 AM PST by soycd
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4 posted on 11/30/2012 9:02:27 AM PST by traumer
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To: traumer

Oh! “Julia decides” to have a child.

No mention of being married or having the father involved.

Of course, “we don’t need no steenking fathers” when the gov’t is there, right?


5 posted on 11/30/2012 9:04:59 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am ready to help re-populate the US.


6 posted on 11/30/2012 9:15:21 AM PST by Perdogg (Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA4) for President 2016)
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To: SeekAndFind

U.S. Birth Rate Hits Record Low. Decline Greatest Among Immigrants. Recession a Likely Factor.

What a load of crap. The more babies they have the more dollars they get and every single one of them knows it. The decline is probably because average working people cannot afford a baby anymore. They are tapped out.


7 posted on 11/30/2012 9:20:17 AM PST by sheana
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RE: The decline is probably because average working people cannot afford a baby anymore.

And now we’re beginning to see the importance of Sandra Fluke gaining prominence.


8 posted on 11/30/2012 9:22:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: sheana

Not to mention simply too damn tired from working 12-hr days to “make” one.


9 posted on 11/30/2012 9:36:16 AM PST by ItsOurTimeNow ("This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around.")
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To: Perdogg

“Despite the recent decline, foreign-born moms continue to give birth to a disproportionate share of the country’s babies, the report said. In 2010, immigrants represented about 13 percent of the U.S. population while foreign-born mothers accounted for 23 percent of all births.”

This is what “immigrants” (read illegals) call “recreation.” Fewer bucks, no TV=more kids! And the men strut around saying “look what I did,” until they realize they have to pay for it. Then they split and leave the whole mess for the rest of us.


10 posted on 11/30/2012 9:38:16 AM PST by vette6387
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To: SeekAndFind

What??? Not enough free sh1t or what?


11 posted on 11/30/2012 9:46:16 AM PST by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What are the sales figures for prescription-less morning after pills? Just wait til we start hearing about the female problems that show up as a result of overuse of these little pills.


12 posted on 11/30/2012 9:53:58 AM PST by petitfour
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To: SeekAndFind

Done my part. Four gorgeous, intelligent, principled kids. The rest of you who haven’t caught up need to get hot. Or learn Chinese.


13 posted on 11/30/2012 9:59:05 AM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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RE: Or learn Chinese.

These folks are REQUIRED to have a max of ONE kid.

And since most of them want BOYS, many first born discovered to be a girl are ABORTED (AKA Killed).

So here we are... 30 million more men than women in China.
It’s like ALL of the population of California being MEN!!

Imagine that, 30 million young horny men with no brides... you either go gay or go overseas to get a bride.

Learn Chinese? Not on your life.


14 posted on 11/30/2012 10:03:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Killing babies in, or exiting from, the womb negatively affects the birth rate.

/s


15 posted on 11/30/2012 10:15:46 AM PST by Iron Munro (Big Moo & Bronco 'Bama = Robbing From The Hood and Boy Blunder)
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To: SeekAndFind

My implication is that if we are out-reproduced, the world will belong to China. Then all of those Chinese bachelors will be coming here. Learning Chinese then becomes mandatory.


16 posted on 11/30/2012 10:33:24 AM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Perdogg
I am ready to help re-populate the US.


17 posted on 11/30/2012 1:44:45 PM PST by Neidermeyer
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To: SeekAndFind

I blame an increase in ugly women.


18 posted on 11/30/2012 3:39:27 PM PST by Organic Panic
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